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President Obama's Insider Threat Program, instituted in 2011 as a response to Bradley Manning, essentially orders all federal employees to behaviorally profile their colleagues and report any 'suspicious' actions.
While much attention has been paid to the program's Orwellian nature – employees who fail to report 'suspicious' activities of co-workers can face criminal charges – little attention has been paid to the actual techniques that underlie the program itself.
Federal employees and contractors are asked to pay particular attention to the lifestyles, attitudes and behaviors - like financial troubles, odd working hours or unexplained travel - of co-workers as a way to predict whether they might do "harm to the United States." Managers of special insider threat offices will have "regular, timely, and,if possible, electronic, access" to employees' personnel, payroll, disciplinary and "personal contact" files, as well as records of their use of classified and unclassified computer networks, polygraph results, travel reports and financial disclosure forms."
Like the NSA's overly-broad and unconstitutional (in my view) surveillance infrastructure, created in the name of national security, the only thing Insider Threat appears to have done is increase the threats of government abuse by ordering millions of federal employees to profile their co-workers and report 'suspicious' activities. To protect us from the 'enemy,' our government is becoming the enemy by focusing on breadth rather than depth.
President Obama's Insider Threat Program, instituted in 2011 as a response to Bradley Manning, essentially orders all federal employees to behaviorally profile their colleagues and report any 'suspicious' actions.
While much attention has been paid to the program's Orwellian nature – employees who fail to report 'suspicious' activities of co-workers can face criminal charges – little attention has been paid to the actual techniques that underlie the program itself.
Federal employees and contractors are asked to pay particular attention to the lifestyles, attitudes and behaviors - like financial troubles, odd working hours or unexplained travel - of co-workers as a way to predict whether they might do "harm to the United States." Managers of special insider threat offices will have "regular, timely, and,if possible, electronic, access" to employees' personnel, payroll, disciplinary and "personal contact" files, as well as records of their use of classified and unclassified computer networks, polygraph results, travel reports and financial disclosure forms."
Like the NSA's overly-broad and unconstitutional (in my view) surveillance infrastructure, created in the name of national security, the only thing Insider Threat appears to have done is increase the threats of government abuse by ordering millions of federal employees to profile their co-workers and report 'suspicious' activities. To protect us from the 'enemy,' our government is becoming the enemy by focusing on breadth rather than depth.
This is all reminiscent of another government in the past. Um, let's see here, I think it was called the
Third Reich. The same tactics, same logic of this administration. Dark designs with desperate intentions all under the guise of "for the good of the people". Hope & Change at its finest.
This is all reminiscent of another government in the past. Um, let's see here, I think it was called the
Third Reich. The same tactics, same logic of this administration. Dark designs with desperate intentions all under the guise of "for the good of the people". Hope & Change at its finest.
More like the East German Stasi, where government is having people spy on each other, while it spies on them.
You see, when this mess starts to affect "White America", then there's a problem. bout time too.
2 movie suggestions for everybody that is concerned about the End of America, privacy, spying, government overreach, etc....
Book of Eli and The Road
^^THIS is where America is headed.
What does spying on people have to do with race, or the bible written in braille?
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